Fence-wire stringer.



No. 649,343. Patented May 8, I900.

J. NOBLE. FENCE WIRE STRINGER.

(Application filed Jan. 3, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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FENCE-VV|RE STRINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 649,343, dated May 8,1900.

Application filed January 3, 1900. gerial No. 242. (No model.)

To all who/1t it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN NOBLE, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Edwards, in the county of St. Lawrence and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Fence-Tire Stringer, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

One object of this invention is to provide a device by means of whichfence-wire may be strung or fed from a spool as needed upon anycharacter of ground, the services of only a single operator beingrequired.

Another object of the invention is to so construct the device that itmay be operated wherever a single individual can find a pas sage and sothat the device may be advantageously employed for rereeling orrewinding wire of any description when, for example, a wire fence is tobe taken down.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved device, the reel beingomitted; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the improved device, havinga reel located therein especially adapted for receiving wire to berewound.

The frame of the device consists of two parallel side bars A, which sidebars terminate at one end in suitable handles a and a connectingplatform or bar 10, which platform or connecting-bar is pivotallyattached to each of the side bars or beams A by means of suitable boltsor pins 11, which pins or bolts 11 are preferably located one near eachend of the platform or cross-bar, near oneedge of the same. The platformor cross-bar 10 is further provided near its other edge at each end witha curved slot 12, the inner ends of the two slots being carried on indirection of the center of the crossbar or platform. A pin or a bolt 13is secured to each of the side beams or bars A, and these pins or boltsare threaded at their upper ends and extend through the curved slots 12,being provided at their upper ends with nuts 14, preferably wing-nuts.Thus by loosening the n uts 14 the ends of the side bars or beams A maybe separated or brought together, as

may be desired, and upon tightening the thumb-nuts 1% the side bars orbeams A will be held in their adjusted position.

On the inner face of each side bar or beam A, near the end opposite thathaving the handle, short spindles 15 are seen red, preferably throughthe medium of suitable plates 16, to which the spindles are attached.These spindles 15 are in transverse alinement and face one another, asshown in Fig. 1. hen Wire is to be strung, the spindles 15 are made toenter the heads of the reel on which the wire is wound, and when asingle operator grasps the handles a of the device and walks away fromthe object to which the wire is attached the wire will unwind, the reelrolling on the ground and serving as a wheel, thus permitting the deviceto be operated withbut little exertion. \Vhen the wire is to be rewoundor rereeled, areel B is preferably used, such as is shown in Fig. 2, thereel consisting of heads 17, connected by slats 18, and spikes 19radiate'from the peripheries of the said heads, which spikes enter theground during the process of rereeling or rewinding the wire. The reel Bis received between" the side bars orbeams A of the device in the samemanner as the reel upon which the wire is marketed.

\Vhen the device is used for rewinding or rereeling the wire, it ispushed toward the object from which the wire is loosened or removed, andthe spikes 19 prevent the reel B from slipping on the ground whilereceiving the unstrung wire, insuring the wire being compactly wound onthe reel. If barbs are used on the wire, the barbs act, in conjunctionwith the spikes 19, to prevent the reel from slipping.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- A device for stringing and rewinding wire, comprisingtwo side bars, spindles attached to the front ends of the side bars andpro jecting laterally toward each other to carry a wire-reel, a platformprovided with pins on which the side bars are respectively pivoted sothat the spindles may be moved toward In testimony whereof i have signed1115* and from each other, the platform being proname to thisspecification in the presence of 10 vided with slots thereinrespectively concentrio to the pins, bolts fastened to the respectiveside bars and projecting through the slots in the platform, and nutsattached to the bolts and adapted to engage the platform to hold theside bars relatively rigid.

two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN NOBLE;

Witnesses:

W. E. GALE, E. A. SHEFFNER:

